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Except the printing part, all can be said about a standalone html file. External content, like images, can be inlined, thus you would only have to distribute o
by Tajnymag 5y ago
Except the printing part, all can be said about a standalone html file.
External content, like images, can be inlined, thus you would only have to distribute one single .html file.
I'm not sure how would file2file linking work in the realm of pdf files. With html files, it's easy even without any web server.
Plus, html can be even digested through a terminal interface. That cannot be said about the binary nature of pdf documents.
- nulbyte 5y agoI use a terminal pager with PDFs quite frequently. It works surprisingly well. Even something you wouldn't expect, like a pay stub, renders fine in the terminal.
- bashinator 5y agoWhat do you use to display the pdf? Pandoc?
- dredmorbius 5y agoPandoc is a converter, not a viewer. Typically one would view a PDF with a dedicated viewer (xpdf, zathura, kpdf, Okular, Evince, ...), or by converting to text (pdftotext). less can be extended with hooks (lesspipe) to read a wide range of file types on the console. Some console file managers can also translate PDFs to text (mc, ranger).
- keiferski 5y agoThis is true, but I do think a PDF is just conceptually simpler and requires less technical knowledge. Especially in a situation where technical users are scarce. IMO most people have a mental model of a PDF as being a digital document, whereas a HTML file is somewhat more amorphous.